Iethod of enameling photographs and other prints



NrTnD 'TATss JOSEPH P. PHELPS, OF MUSOATINE, IO'WA.

METHOD OFENAMELlNG PHOTOGRAPHS AND OTHER PRINTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,909, dated April12, 1887. Application filed December 14, 1885. Serial No. 185.638. (Nospecimens.)

T 0 all whom it may concerns 7 Be it known that LJOSEPH P. PHELPS, acitizen of the United States, residing at Muscatine, in the county ofMuscatine and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Vpicture after it is made; and it consists-in the preparation,combination, and application of the ingredients hereinafter named anddescribed, so as to produce the desired results with certainty andexpedition. I

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, Iproceed to explain the method of preparing and applying the difi'erentelements.

I mount the prints to be enameled on wet card-hoard with common paste. Ithen pre pare my emulsion in the following manner: glutina alba, (orwhite glue,) three ounces; soft water, eight ounces; half the white ofone egg; glycerine, ten drops; French chalk, three grains. Put thismixture over a fire until thoroughly dissolved. Then take a Frenchplate-glass, or any finely-polished glass, about two inches smaller thanthe card-board the prints are mounted on, (but large enough to cover the.prints,) which has been previously coated with the following solution:ether, one

ounce; alcohol, one ounce; gun-cotton, six grains; French chalk,-onegrain. I use to tint this last-above'solution any color so as to produceany desired tone on enameled picturesa drop at a time of the followingpreparation of fuchsine, of any color desired, mixed: fuchsine,one-quarter ounce; alcohol, four ounces.

New, lay this glass, coated side up, upon ablock or raised surfaceinside of a tray made to catch the emulsion which runs off of the plate.After filtering the emulsion through a porous cloth into apouring-vessel of some kind. I pour a sufficient quantity across one endof the glass to cover the picture when squeezed over it. I then take themounted print, clamp one end by a springattached to the same block orplatform that holds the glass, arranged so that the picture to beenameled and glass with the coating of (No. 2) solution are exactly on alevel. I-now take a roll'er covered with thin rubber, or any materialthat will give slightly, and with one sweep roll the picture down ontothe glass. I then lay the glass with picture on face down to dry. Whenthoroughly dry, run the edge of a knife between the edge of the glassand the picture, and the print will snap from thejglass elegantlyenameled.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An emulsion for photographs and other prints, consisting of glutinaalba, soft water, albumen, glycerine, and French chalk, in about theproportions set forth.

2. An enameling and tinting or toning composition, consisting of ether,alcohol, gun-cotton, French chalk, and fuchsine, in about theproportions set forth.

3. The herein'described method of enameling photographs or other prints,consisting in placing the enameling-emulsion ina line across a smoothsurface, then clamping one end of the photograph or print, face down, tothe surface over or back of the body of emulsion,'and rolling the printupon the surface by means of a roller, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. JOSEPH P. PHELPS.

\Vitnesses:

CHAS. TAPPE, Roar. B. BAIRD.

